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The Jacksonville Historical Society unearthed previously and purposely buried video of 'Ax Handle Saturday,' which happened on August 28, 1960 following a sit-in demonstration.
The barber was Frank Crowd, prominent Black barber who later owned theaters in LaVilla neighborhood A couple of weeks ago, Mitch Hemann was rummaging through the abandoned offices of a long-closed casket factory when he found an old framed photo, leaning against a wall with some other pictures. Instantly, he knew this was something special. The large print, through a layer of dust that had worked its way under the glass in a busted frame, showed two men — one older, one middle-aged — and a younger male, probably a teenager, on the porch of a simple wood-framed building. Another man le...